Octavia Spencer Quotes
My family supported me before any of this crazy notion of moving out to Hollywood and staking my claim. That support has never waned.
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I love to sit and watch people. I love to sit and listen to people.
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People just decided I was an R&B artist because I'm black.
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As long as there is cash, and the economy is running, all is well. But as a bank, we'll have to test, experiment, try a hundred different things. A few may work, a few may fail, but we have to experiment and try.
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Palestinian propagandists can say and do anything they please without concern for the truth, in the belief that if they repeat it often enough it will simply become the truth.
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Reverence is fatal to literature.
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If your access to health care involves your leaving work and driving somewhere and parking and waiting for a long time, that's not going to promote healthiness.
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People think that if you have a huge appetite, then you'll be better at it. But actually, it's how you confront the food that is brought to you. You have to be mentally and psychologically prepared.
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Black women as a group have never been fools. We couldn't afford to be.
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I am sometimes sad when I hear the personal stories of Tibetan refugees who have been tortured or beaten. Some irritation, some anger comes. But it never lasts long. I always try to think at a deeper level, to find ways to console.
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My inherent belief is that motherhood is pious, and I am humbled by it.
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The thing is, it really did take us too long to get these recordings done. We've had our rough times in the studio in the past, but after four weeks most of the material would have been recorded. This time it seemed like it just goes on and on.
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So never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small, for it is wonderful how often in such matters the mustard-seed germinates and roots itself.
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I want to be best golfer in the world. But I feel like golf is not everything in my life, but I want to keep doing it, keep working hard, do the best I can on the tour and give back to the tour.
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The poverty program was not designed to eliminate poverty.
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I always try to block out an hour or so a day to read. Being a writer is a job, and reading helps train my brain in the right direction.
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Literature is an avenue to glory, ever open for those ingenious men who are deprived of honours or of wealth.
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Being Somali, being Muslim, it's always something I've been very proud of.
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That's the way it is with poetry: When it is incomprehensible it seems profound, and when you understand it, it is only ridiculous.
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If you don't have collective agreements between unions and employers, governments have to legislate more.
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You can laugh at somebody because they are innocent, and because they are naive or they are about to walk into a wall, but if somebody's giving you stuff, if somebody's talking, giving you their take on things, what makes you laugh, generally speaking, is going to be somebody who is telling it in an angry way.
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I am called an Islamic fundamentalist by Rushdie. My critics in Pakistan say I am a Zionist agent. I must be doing something right.
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Madame Chairman, I presume this is to sweep Britain clean of socialism
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I don't really care what others think of me. You're not going to please everybody. I care what I think and what my children and my husband thinks.
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My family supported me before any of this crazy notion of moving out to Hollywood and staking my claim. That support has never waned.
